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ArticlePLoS medicine2014

Alcohol harm reduction: corporate capture of a key concept.

Jim McCambridge, Kypros Kypri, Colin Drummond, John Strang

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Article in PLoS medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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29citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  17. Corporate Political Activity: Taxonomies and Model of Corporate Influence on Public Policy.International journal of health policy and management · 2023
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  18. Scoping review of managed alcohol programs.Harm reduction journal · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Jim McCambridgeFaculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
Kypros KypriCentre for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia.
Colin DrummondKing's College London, National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom.
John StrangKing's College London, National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom.

Funding

Department of Health HTA/13/86/03Department of Health RP-PG-0609-10162Medical Research Council G0701681Medical Research Council G0701818Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust WT086516MA
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Jim McCambridge and colleagues reflect on how the concept of harm reduction may be being usurped by the alcohol industry. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.

Indexed as

Harm ReductionAlcohol DrinkingEthanolHealth PolicyHumansPublic HealthEthanol

Identifiers

PMID25490717
PMCPMC4260782

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